Improvement in compounds for treating leather



SAMUEL s; WALBANK, orsurnn on CITY, WISCONSIN.

Letters Patent No. 110,610. dated December 27, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMPOUNDS FOR'TREATING LEATHER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL S; VVALBANK, of Superior City, Douglasscounty, State of Wisconsin, have invented a. new and useful Compound orMix-' ture for Leather; and I do hereby declare the following to be anexact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingspecified quantities of the ingredients that I use, as follows:

I take, of India crude rubber, two ounces;

Gutta-percha, two ounces.

Castor oil, two ounces.

Ncats-foot oil, four ounces.

Crude or refined petroleum, one gallon.

.Bichloride of mercury, sixty grains.

Ivory black, four ounces.

Prussia. blue, one-fourth of an ounce.

I dissolve the rubber andgutta-peroha. in the petroleum by boiling in a.close vessel, and then allowed to cool, when I add the bichloride ofmercury; then the castor-gmd neat*-foot oils, and lastlythe ivorv blackand Prussian blue.

I use this compound omnixture by applying itwith a. brush or piece ofsponge to the leather, which makes .it not only water-pro0flbntpreserves it, and 1 therefore style it the liquid 'leather-preserver andwaterproof 'blacking.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of the ingredients, when mixed and used in thequantities and proportions as herein described, and for the purposes setforth.

' S. S. WALBANK.

\Vitn'esses:

WILLIAM R. PERRY. Ms. S. Rrronm.

